Thursday, January 21 st , 2021, 7PM Ticket price: $10 The Orange County Historical Museum presents a virtual cooking demonstration featuring historical interpreter Linda Ostrand, who trained at the Pennsbury Manor. She will be cooking a traditional Jeffersonian dish using techniques and tools from the early 1800’s. Attendees will receive a recording of the live … Continued
Please join us online for Sticks and Stones: British Women Fight for the Vote at 3pm on January 24th. In this program, you will hear from Dr. Sylvia Hoffert, former professor of history and women's studies at UNC Chapel Hill, as she offers an in depth look at the often-violent events that characterized the British … Continued
Please join the Burwell School Historic Site on February 21st at 3pm for the online program History Spotlight: The Lives of Job Berry and Henry Evans. This program will examine the lives of these two significant 19th century African Americans in Hillsborough, NC. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4516122854455/WN_AsHYFnfeQfWMxgrEX7-pJg
Join us for ‘Date Night’ at the OCHM! Curator Courtney Smith will provide a virtual tour, give behind the scene insights, and celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit, ‘Date Night: Fashion, Food, Music, and Fun’, which will explore individual adventures and overall experiences that showcase what it was like to date in Orange County … Continued
Join tour guide Cheryl Sobnosky on a virtual walking tour through historic Hillsborough. Established in 1754 as the seat of government for Orange County, Hillsborough’s colonial legacy and signs of its importance in North Carolina and American history can be seen throughout the town. Follow along with Cheryl as she points out some of Hillsborough's … Continued
The Orange County Historical Museum and Tom Magnuson present ‘The Networks of Early North Carolina History’ as a four-part series. In this series, Tom Magnuson will present some of his findings from his thirty years of studying the earliest commercial transportation networks in the Southeast of North America. Part 2 takes place on Thursday, May … Continued
Betty Eidenier will lead you on an imaginary walk from the Eno River up Churton Street as it was in 1850. Along the way, you will meet Anna Burwell, Maria Nash, Job Berry, Hugh Waddell, John Berry, Lemuel Lynch. Eliza Chavious, Umstead Mayo, the Burwell boys, and others out and about on this fine May … Continued
Join award-winning teacher Ken Ostrand as we Zoom around one of Hillsborough’s often overlooked treasures, the Old Town Cemetery. An archaeologist by training, Dr. Ostrand, will uncover some oft-overlooked people and some of the archaeological evidence that landed the Cemetery on the National Register of Historic Places. A Signer of the Declaration of Independence, a … Continued
Join author and entrepreneur Adrainne Renee Thompson as she reads her poetry, discusses the social epidemic of online dating, and recounts some of her more interesting encounters.Virtually hosted by the Orange County Historical Museum, on Thursday, November 18, at 7pm. Register for this free virtual event at www.orangehistorync.org/events. Thompson has won several poetry contests; spoken … Continued
Join the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough as Occaneechi historian Lawrence Dunmore hosts a discussion on the history of the Occaneechi in the 1600 and 1700s. Learn about how the tribe traded, lived, and interacted with one another in the colonial era in Orange County. Date: November 30th, 7-9pm Zoom Free, but we appreciate donations! Click … Continued